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The Endangered Species Act establishes protections for fish, wildlife, and plants that are listed as threatened or endangered; provides for adding species to and removing them from the list of threatened and endangered species, and for preparing and implementing plans for their recovery; provides.
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.
The Endangered Species Act is a U.S. federal law passed in 1973 that obligates federal and state governments to protect all species threatened with extinction that fall within the borders of the United States and its outlying territories.
The Endangered Species Act focuses on conserving threatened and endangered plants and animals. One way EPA helps protect endangered species is through regulating the use of pesticides, and establishing maximum levels for pesticide residues in food.
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973* FINDINGS, PURPOSES, AND POLICY . S. EC. 2. (a) F. INDINGS.—The Congress finds and declares that— (1) various species of fish, wildlife, and plants in the United States have been rendered extinct as a consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation;
The US Endangered Species Act (ESA) is our nation’s most effective law to protect at-risk species from extinction, with a stellar success rate: 99% of species listed on it have avoided extinction. Passed with bipartisan support on Dec. 28, 1973, the law allows individuals and organizations to petition to have a species listed as endangered or ...
When Congress passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973, it recognized that our rich natural heritage is of “esthetic, ecological, educational, recreational, and scientifc value to our Nation and its people.” It further expressed concern that many of our nation’s native plants and animals were in danger of becoming extinct.
Enacted on December 28, 1973 by President Richard Nixon, the Endangered Species Act emerged as a response to the alarming rate at which species of plants and animals were disappearing from the face of the Earth.
DETERMINATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES AND THREATENED SPECIES SEC. 4. (a) GENERAL.—(1) The Secretary shall by regulation deter mine whether any species is an endangered species or a threatened species because of any of the following factors: (1) the present or threatened destruction, modification, or cur tailment of its habitat or range ;
In 1973, the Endangered Species Act passed in the Senate unanimously and in the House by a vote of 345 to 4. The act authorized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine...